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Cosmic Microwave Background - what is going on?

22 December 2010 > Astronomy
A post at www.dailygalaxy.com December 20th has the title, 'Epic Discovery Update: We are One of Many Universes', a story taken from a paper available
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Oz and the weather

22 December 2010 > Climate change
At www.physorg.com/print2120041103.html ... we have some nice pictures of snow in Australia - in December. It's supposed to be summer down under but some icy gusts
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Ice Ages

22 December 2010 > Geology
The New York Times (see www.nytimes.com/2010/12/18/world/middleeast/18deadsea.html ) has picked up on the story of the Dead Sea sediment cores that are currently being drilled out
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A Deep Sea waterway

21 December 2010 > Geology
At http://geology.com/noaa/sulawesi-sea/ .... this is an interesting piece of reseach as the Sulwesi Sea even during the Ice Age was a water-way and a barrier
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Some results from the Large Hadron Collider

21 December 2010 > Physics
At www.physorg.com/print211983845.html ... the large hadron collider has found no signature of microscopic black holes produced in high energy proton-proton collisions. They are predicted to
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Dusty Plasma ... and tribulations of an EU proselytiser

19 December 2010 > Electromagnetism
The Plasma Universe Wikipedia-like Encyclopedia has some interesting entries (see www.plasma-universe.com/Dusty_plasma/ ). This one, with the title 'dusty plasma', sets out to describe precisely what this
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All quiet on the front - the latest survey at Stonehenge has gone silent

19 December 2010 > Archaeology
At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1337890/ ... it's all gone quiet on the geophysical survey around Stonehenge  which just a couple of months ago was all over the media.
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The Magnetic Field of the Earth

18 December 2010 > Electromagnetism
At www.wired.com/wiredscience/2-1-/12/magnetic-copper-slag/ .... it seems that copper slag from Iron Age smelting activities at Khirbet es/Nahu in NE Jordan and from Timna in what is
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Mars - spreading volcano

16 December 2010 > Geology
At http://specialpaper.gsapubs.org/content/470/115.abstract 'Is Tharsis, Mars, a spreading volcano?' - it is thought Tharsis Rise on Mars is spreading outwards and that has produced rifting at
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Plasma and Magnetic Fields

16 December 2010 > Electromagnetism
NASA has another story to delight - the Cassini spacecraft took images of enormous clouds of plasma periodically blooming around Saturn, moving the planet 'like
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NASA News

15 December 2010 > Astronomy
At http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/13dec_globaleruption/ we have a video clip and a story on a sunspot eruption way back in August (see also www.dailygalaxy.com december 14th). What prompted the
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Aztec Blood Ritual

15 December 2010 > Archaeology
There are two articles so far in what will be a three part series on Aztec blood rituals - sacrifice. See www.archnews.co.uk/featured/3722-the-purpose-of-aztec-blood-rituals.htm and www.archnews.co.uk/featured/4282-the-purpose-of-aztec-blood-rituals-part-2.htm ...
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Prehistoric Footprints at Formby

15 December 2010 > Geology
The footprints are said to date back some 5000 to 6000 years ago, see www.archnews.co.uk/world-archaeology/uk-archaeology/4216-prehistoric-human-footprints.html and it seems a lot of amateurs have been scouring
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Israel Antiquities Authority

15 December 2010 > Archaeology
For those interested in Biblical archaeology - or revisions with a slant towards the archaeology of the Levant, you may be interested to learn the
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Naughty Maoris

15 December 2010 > Archaeology
At www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/12/14/3092679.html ... apparently, scientists have found evidence that 40 per cent of the canopy forest in the South Island of New Zealand was incinerated
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Victor Clube at the 2010 Conference on Quantavolution

13 December 2010 > Catastrophism
The talk is available for download from http://www.2010-q-conference.com/globalwarmingand/index.html ... the talk has the title, 'Global Warming and the Disallowed Protestant Calendar' but has nothing to

A crocodile - but different

12 December 2010 > Biology
At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101210094416.htm ... a paper in the Journal of Vertebrae Paleontology 30 (December 8th) has come up with some interesting biological differences, as it seems
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Integrity?

12 December 2010 > Climate change
At http://johnosullivan.livejournal.com/26669.html ... Kevin Trenberth, IPCC lead author and matey boy with Phil Jones of UEA notoriety, has rushed to defend a peculiar study that
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Worlds in Collision

11 December 2010 > Physics
At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209141130.htm .... worlds in collision - actually bashing up against each other - is one hypothesis of the early solar system now being floated. An
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Cosmic Fireworks

10 December 2010 > Catastrophism
At http://cosmictusk.com there is suddenly a flurry of posts after a long period of inactivity - on meteorites and fireballs. For example, a fireball train
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